Mounting for hair-pins and the like.



. M. OWENS.

MOUN HAIR PINS AND THE LIKE.

N FILED OCT. 22

1,27 3,530. Patented July 23, 1918.

Rvenfor mmmm '17 UNITED S ATE PATENT OF ICE,

HARVEY M, OWENS, OE-LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOUNTING FOR HAIR-PINS AND THE LIKE;

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Spec1ficatien ofLetters Patent. t t July 23, 9

Applieation filed Qctober 22, 1917. Serial No. 197,815.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I I'IARYEI M. OWI'HNS, a

'citi en of, the United States, residing at Leolninstel', in the county of lvoreester and S tate of Massachusetts, have-invented new andnseful Mountings for Hair-Pins and the like, of whieh the following is a specificw tion.

inyention relates to a mounting, preferably 'in thej form, of a card; oi pasteboard ortlnp like, gt' o xhz ti x-pins or other two pronged art cles, and s ,partieulz u'ly useiul in connection with[theinounting of celluloid hair-pins. The prineipal objects of th s inventlon are to" proyidea i arrangement in which the pi s n be app e wi h r t apidi y by those .who are skilled, ,and especially to proyide a construction which will effe tiyely and surelyholdthepms on the card, and

not allow them to be shaken off after they are once applied. Further objects of, the

invention .areato provddean arrangement which W1ll not bend the eard 0,1 bell-kely to mutilate it when the pins are being applied to.it,ione in which a relatively large i number of pins can be applied in aisinall spa ce,, a nd one which 1s capable of nse for a double row ofhan'rpins w thou taincreas- 3Q, ing the complexity of the device in propor- ,,tion to the increased number of pins mountved upon; it.] Further objects and aclyantages of the inyention will appear herein- ,Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a, front view'oi a double card showing a preferred embodiment of. this invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 1s a rear VJBW of thesame, the card being turned over one of lts yert cal edges,

1 and.

, centric.

semi-circular, the smaller one preterably is i Fig.3 is an edge view.

1 The card provided along its center it it is a ,double ;card,or alongthe topedgeif it is a ar Q ingl ow; of ,P wi h We ries of equally spaced cuts or slits lQand 11. These are preferably rsenaici reular and con- Although they I have been called con inued slightly beyond the diameter of the circle sothat it is U-shaped. and the larger is terminated at both ends by flaring extensions, but at any rate whether these details are followed or not, the result is that there is a substantially semi circ u lar back of which is a tongue lfl integral'ayith;

the card of course, and always lying in the plane of it to,support the back of the hairpin as appear. l l

In alinement with the verticalaxis of these curi'es thathayebeen mentioned abov is a single opening near; the edge of the card and in the fornrsliown at thet wo .opposite edges. Theseopenings arejiorined by curved slits 15 which I prefer to feall U -Shaped, although they can be formed in other shapes and are shown as substantially semi cireular at the bottom with their pa allel edges extending eonsideia tbly beyond the horizontal axis of the circle so that tongue (16 cut out by them forms :a; support for the legs of the pins substantially in the plane'of the card. i

From the bottomof each of these curyed slits extends a single oflset slit 17. This is central at its top huteggtendsofi materially toone side so as to form aflexible tongue 18 that is easily bent for a purpose tofbe described. It Wlll be obvious that vhen the 1 card is double as shown the three tongues '16 at the two ends and ld at the eent ei3 1 inalinement ,with each otl1 e1', QIt their centers are-substantially in .ali'nernent.

In the use of the camlthe hair;pin toil be mounted is handled at its bow endand one of its legs is slippedthrough th e, perfora-,

tion 13. a11 dtheu it iS turned so as to -ekte nd iu the direction of the tonguelG at the op posite edge (2f; the card. The pin isl nqought on theezu'd so that the emls othoth legs touch the card, as shown at the lower. corner of Fig; 1,,andtheuyynrthout relnoy ng the head or how end from the op e i ngllil the legs areslipped to the right voyenthe tongue 18 which they bend down.v As soon as they pass under it tln'oagh the slit 17.

into the slit 15 they come together, at the right of the. end of the slit l7 and. the

tongue 18 is then freeto spring up again ,intol'he plane of the earth The legs are flien released and the left hand leg' naturally in while the left hand end at the top is va cant, no pin being shown.

It will be seen therefore that the pins are very easily slipped into position, particularly on account of the fact that the two legs do not have to be handled separately, which constitutes a material economy in this industry and no matter whether two rows are used as shown or only a single row,-the pins 7 are securely held in position.

They cannot be dislodged by merely shaking the card in any ordinary way for the reason that even nections.

in theabsence ofthe second row the bow portions of the pins do not slip to one side tab provided w th asmgle perforation there- 'far enough to be dislodged from the perforations 13 and obviously the ends of the legs arevery securely held in the position inwhich they havebeen placed until the tongue 18 is pressed down intentionally or the pin is rippedoff, breaking its paper conthis does not materially bend the cards because the bow parts do not extend through the cards at all and they are supported at. the extreme tops by the tongues 14, while the legs are supported by the tongues 16 which are flat and simply lift the. loweredge of the card slightly from its general plane.

It will be understood, of course, that when 4 only a single row of pinsis to be applied to the card the slits 10 and 11 can be made a of smaller diameter than shown and the edge of'the card will come adjacent to the upper ends of the slits 11. r

. Although I have illustrated and described only a single form of the invention, I am aware of the fact that many modifications can be made therein by any person skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention as expressed inthe claims.

Therefore I do not wish to be limited to all the details of construction herein shown and described, but what I do claim is ing for hair-pins having means for holdingthebow end. of a pin, and an'opening jfor recelving the two legs, said opening having a 'tongue'extending into it from the end beyond which said means is located for supporting the rear surfaces of the legs substantlally lnthe plane of the mounting.

2. As an artlcle of manufacture, a mounting for hair-pins having means for holding mounting, and a flexible tongueextend It is found in practice also that 1. As an article of manufacture, a inounttwo legs.

ing sidewise beyond said opening to a point near the center thereof and adapted to be pressed back to admit the ends of the legs into said opening.

3. As an article of manufacture, a sheet for holding hair-pins or the like having means for holding the bow part of each pin, and an individual opening through the sheet for receiving the-two legs of each pin and limiting their distance apart.

4. As an article of manufacture, a sheet for holding hair-pins or the like having means for holding the bow part of the pin, and a single opening for receiving the two legs, said opening being substantially symmetrical but having a single slitextending away from it at an angle to facilitate entering the ends of the legs therein. 7 V

5. As anarticle of manufacture, a sheet for holding hair-pins'or the like havinga bow part of the pin, and a single opening for receiving the two legs, said openingbeing substantially U-shaped with the curvedpart at the bottom and having a slit extending from the center of the curved portion thereof at an angle to a line drawn from that point to the center of the first named per- IEOI'atIOIL j ,1 v

7. As an article of manufacture, a sheet for holding hair-pins or the like having a perforated tab connected to the sheet along a line located longitudinally with respect to ,the'pins for receiving the bow part of the pin, and a single opening for receiving the two legs, said opening being substantially symmetrical but having a single slit extending away from it at an angle to facilitate entering the ends oft-he legs therein bya sidewise motion,

8.;As an article of manufacture, a sheet for holding hair-pins or the like having two concentric perforations forming a substan:

tially semi-circular tab with a tongue between its ends, the tab being adapted to swing away from the plane of the card I about a longitudinal axis and providing an openmg for rece ving the bow part of a hair pin, and a single opening substantially in allnement with said ax s for receiv ng the v 9. As an article of manufacture, a sheet for holding hair-pins or the like having two concentric perforations forming a substantially semi-circular-tab with a tongue between its ends, thetab being adapted to swing away from the plane of the card about a longitudinal axis and providing an 7 opening for receiving the bow part of it pins, and :1 single opening at each opposite hair pin, and the tongue constituting a supedge of the sheet for receiving the two legs port for the pin in the plane of the sheet. of one of said, pins. 10

10. As an article of manufacture, a sheet In testimony whereof I have hereunto 5 for holding a double row of hair-pins or the aflixed my signature.

like having two spaced perforations near the center for receiving the bow parts of two HARVEY M. OWENS.

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